Mopsy can say lots of words now - her favourite is ‘um duck’, meaning ‘I’m stuck’ and uttered whenever she can’t get somewhere she wants to get to e.g. down off a chair; into someone’s arms; through a closed door.  She spends a lot of time saying ‘biooooooowww’ at anything she thinks might be a cat, and is starting to get the hang of saying ‘woo woo’ for ‘woof woof’ and ‘aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh’ for ‘baa’.  She enjoys being a ’scary lion’ and running after people with her arms outstretched like a zombie and growling then giggling.  She’s an extremely affectionate girl and is always giving us hugs and kisses - especially Flopsy, whom she adores.  She can climb anything she wants to and we often find her on the table with a huge grin on her face.  She loves drawing and particularly enjoys doing scribbles then showing them to us telling us that she’s drawn a ‘dar’ (star).  She’s also extremely musical, and grins and jigs up and down whenever she hears music - she’s really good at staying in time with the music so I think she’s inherited some of her father’s genes there (DH plays bass guitar).  She loves books and can often be found looking through their little bookcase.  She plays wonderful make-believe games with Flopsy - having tea-parties; talking on the telephone (which involves putting something to the side of her head and shouting ‘yah!’ very loudly).  She’s absolutely gorgeous

Flopsy is going too fast!  She can read lots of people’s names, and a few other words like ’cat’.  She’s just starting writing a few letters - she can do ’i'; ‘o’ and ’T’ and she just came up to me now and showed me a ‘y’.  Mum found a Ladybird Key Words Reading Scheme book in a charity shop and Flopsy is mad about it and has, within the space of about four days, memorised most of the words and spends a lot of time reading it to herself and to us.  She loves Mopsy and is very patient with her.  She’s really learnt to call one of us when Mopsy intereferes with her games instead of pushing her away, so much so that I’m starting to get a bit tired of hearing ‘oh, oh, Mopsy is getting my book/food/cup…’ everytime Mopsy goes anywhere near her!  She helps Mopsy with lots of things, and loves showing her the signs for certain words.  As I’ve said in the last post, she’s really wonderful on the computer now and finds games to play that I’ve never seen!  She can usually work out how to play them as well, despite the fact she can’t possibly be able to read the instructions!  She loves pretending to be someone else, and after a little fad when she was Baby Jazzy and I was Mama Jojo from a book she’s got, she’s spent the last week being Dora the Explorer with Mum being Boots.  She’s also absolutely gorgeous!